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Scrivo Agnostic Front e da subito devo aggiungere il nome del loro leader e fondatore: Roger Miret vero e proprio padre putativo della movimentata ed intransigente scena Hardcore newyorkese. Fin dai remotissimi esordi con l'esplosivo ep United Blood, del 1983, capace di condensare cinque brani in sei minuti. Ma è con il successivo esordio sulla lunga distanza che gettano le imponenti basi per tutto quello che nascerà per merito loro, decine e decine di fulminanti band, nel territorio della Grande Mela. Victim In Pain è il titolo di questa rozza sequenza (questa volta sono undici i pezzi per un totale di quindici minuti) di brani potentissimi, arrembanti con il vocalismo poderoso di Miret che si scaglia contro tutto e tutti. Passano gli anni ed arriviamo al disastroso, nel senso che è un disco fallimentare sotto ogni punto di vista, One Voice; un lavoro mediocre se non scarso con risultati di vendite ridotte al minimo. Per questo motivo, ed anche a causa dei soliti dissidi interni, Roger pone la sua band in una sorta di forzato riposo. Si prende un lungo periodo di riflessione e nel 1998 ecco la bomba che nessuno immaginava di ascoltare ancora a nome Agnostic Front. Firmano per la Epitaph Records (Bad Religion, Bad Religion!!); Roger chiede il necessario aiuto in fase di produzione ad un certo Billy Milano (SOD - MOD tanto per fare due nomi quasi a caso) ed ecco servito un lavoro che ci riconsegna una band che vuole assolutamente recuperare i fasti degli esordi per dare l'ennesimo strattone, l'ennesimo pugno in faccia a chi li considerava finiti. Lo scettro da dominatori di una scena è ancora nelle loro mani. Non c'è spazio per la contaminazione con il Thrash e per il Crossover in Something's Gotta Give; solo e soltanto una primitiva violenza Hardcore che si sviluppa attraverso una sequenza di brani capaci di levare il respiro; intensità, velocità, cattiveria esecutiva. Coerenza ed attitudine bellica. I due minuti della title track, posta ad aprire le "danze pogose", mi sono sufficienti per raccontare l'album: batteria squadrata che conosce un solo tempo, chitarre che macinano un unico riff senza il minimo accenno di assoli; e poi quella voce così cruda, strappata, feroce, cinica...MY WAR...
Gli Agnostic Front sono tornati; e fanno malissimo.
Diabolos Rising 666.
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02 Believe (01:38)
I know I can trust myself cause I believe in what I say
I believe in my friends, because their with me everyday
Believe that we can overcome because the scene is strong today
Believe I live this life, because I know HARDCORE'S THE WAY
Believe we are right
Believe we are strong
Believe in yourself
BELIEVE - HARDCORE
I know things look bleak sometimes I wish it wasn't that way
We know we're in the right WE STAND PROUD TODAY
03 Gotta Go (03:35)
From the east coast to the west coast
Gotta gotta gotta go
True sounds of a revolution
Gotta gotta gotta go
In our hearts and in our souls
Gotta gotta gotta go
United we stand devided we fall
Gotta gotta gotta go
Cant keep touch with you or me
Gotta gotta gotta go
Need sense of security
Gotta gotta gotta go
Want to live my life for me
Gotta gotta gotta go
Why cant they just let me be
Gotta gotta gotta go
Say I'm crazy
Just brain dead
Planting thoughts
Within my head
Cant believe
What I've said
What has become of me
What has become of me
Dont believe what youve been told
Gotta gotta gotta go
Never seen no streets paved in gold
Gotta gotta gotta go
Mindless violence ruined me
Gotta gotta gotta go
No such thing as something free
Gotta gotta gotta go
Say I'm crazy
Just brain dead
Planting thoughts
Within my head
Cant believe
What I've said
What has become of me
What has become of me
I gotta gotta go
Gotta gotta gotta go
I gotta gotta go
Gotta gotta gotta go
I gotta gotta get out of here
Gotta gotta gotta go
I gotta gotta go
Gotta gotta gotta go
I gotta gotta go
I gotta gotta go
I gotta gotta go
I gotta gotta get out of here
I gotta gotta go
I gotta gotta go
I gotta gotta get
Out of Here
04 Before My Eyes (02:10)
Right before my eyes I've been betrayed
I've worked so hard and everything
I fucking gave you haven't changed
A rat, a traitor, digging yourself a grave...
Right before my eyes. I see all your shame
I feel all your pain
You have turned your back
I'm in a rage, can't control
My feeling
I've been upstaged
Life in a cage, no longer human burning from all the hate,
Against the grain I live this life every single fucking day
Nothing to save something that was will never be that way again
07 Voices (02:16)
Live come to the end
Nowhere to go
Look back and see
Remains, left in the road
Can't keep me behind closed doors
Or locked up in a cage,
I'll rise again
My stregth comes from my pain
Time to break free
Don't hold me back
The world is mine
Be it cruel and unkind
Voices, in my head tell me I'm insane
Voices, me grita en mi cabeza
Voices, are to blame
VOICES, SCREAMING INSIDE MY HEAD
10 Bloodsucker (01:41)
You hide behind our cause
Wave a flag for all to see
We know all your flaws
Your intent, always greed
Superseed for your greed
Stab our backs, we bleed
No shit, we won't take
Realize you're just a fake
Played your games with no respect to me
Now I see you're no friend to me
Sucking the life right out of me
11 The Blame (02:11)
What are you gonna do?
When they all turn on you
Is it worth it for us to live
Their way?
It's their mistake and we're to blame.
Are we to live by the rules
And be told what to do
We're not part of their society
FUCK THEIR AUTHORITY
WE'RE THE YOUTH OF TODAY
And nothing can stand in our way
We are young and strong
With our new hopes, we can't go wrong
We'll live without conformity
We've got our dreams, fuck their authority
Can't you look around you?
And see the world of today
They are full of fucking hypocrites
Who keep lying to get their way
It's time for us to try to live our lives
TO KEEP OUR DREAMS ALIVE
TO MAKE THEM ALL REALIZE
That we gotta fight TILL WE DIE!
We've taken to many excuses
And we know we're right
The anger has grown inside us
And we're out for blood TONIGHT
12 Today, Tomorrow, Forever (02:27)
Who says Ol'Glory's gone
The pride we still carry on
Remember those led astray
POWER - WON'T FADE AWAY TODAY, TOMORROW, FOREVER [x2]
UNITED - WE STAND DIVIDED - WE FALL
Respect you must earn
An honor for all...
TODAY, TOMORROW, FOREVER
WE GOTTA STICK TOGETHER
WE'RE DOWN FOR LIFE FOREVER DIVIDED...
NEVER UNITED,
TOGETHER TODAY, TOMORROW, FOREVER
13 Rage (01:32)
Look at me, look at you, nothing to say
Everything I'm own, you've taken away
All I ever wanted was to get by
Now you wanna know the reason why
Don't believe in fate, I believe in bad luck
All the stories told art so trumped up
Wanna know why i'm so fucked up
Now you wanna know the reason why RAGE...
RAGE Every waking moment has this strain on me
Can't unlock these secrets if I have no key
When I go blow it up you'll know it's my time
Now you wanna know the reason why
My bad luck
Su trumped up
So fucked up
Now you wanna know the reason why?
RAGE
14 Pauly the Dog (00:48)
Wellllll...
He's not very handsome to look at.
And he eats just like a hog.
And he's always drinkin' my beer up.
Heyyyyyy Pauly the beer drinkin' dog.
Heyyyyyy Pauly the beer drinkin' dog.
Well, he's not very pretty to look at.
And he smells just like a hog.
And he's always drinkin' me beer up.
Heyyyyyy Pauly the beer drinkin' dog.
Heyyyyyy Pauly the beer drinkin' dog.
15 Crucified (03:25)
They ask why we dress this way.
Life for now, stand today.
See the kids, but don't hear what they say.
Close your eyes and look the other way.
They it's the end, justify the means.
They lock us up throw away the keys.
Crucified, skinhead army.
Crucified, for your sins.
Crucified, skinhead army.
Crucified, for your sins.
They don't know our feeling.
Our only desperate cries.
They seek along
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